Binding device



C. H. PAYNE.

BINDING DEVICE.

APPLICATIQN FILED MAY 2. I919.

1,365,189. Patented Jan..11, 1921.

UNITED STATES CHARLES H. PAYNE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

BINDING DEVICE.

Application filed May 2, 1819.

To all whom it may concmm Be it known that I, CHARLES H. PAYNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Binding Devices, of which the following is a specification.

Many devices are in use which temporarily hold leaves, papers letters, documents, memoranda, bills and the like, until they are filed or a time limit has been reached to remove them and place them into a temporary binder, which will hold them for reference, and it is this latter class of a binder which I have evolved and which is the subject matter of this application. T he leaves or papers usually filed in this manner have holes punched in them at given and predetermined points and thus can be readily bound or filed in the temporary binders and then transferred to my binding device, in which they become a permanent record, or can be removed and replaced as desired and found expedient.

My device consists essentially of two parts or frame pieces and means extending between them, partly on each, for clamping the leaves or records between them and then holding them together in this compressed condition, so that the pressure exerted by the parts outwardly or away from each other, will hold the holding means in position and against displacement, thus holding the contents firm and in alinement. My device is very simple, is cheap of manufacture and highly efiicient in use.

It is preferably used without covers or backs to form a book, but may be used in such connection if found desirable and practical.

In the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification;

Figure 1, is an isometric view of my device holding a multiplicity of pages or leaves together,

Fig. 2, is an isometric view-of the same, disengaged from the leaves or pages, and

Fig. 3, is a side view of the lower hinged part of the device of Figs. 1 and 2 showing the holding pin I use to hold the parts together to bind the leaves or pages between the parts forming my device.

The binding device, as before stated, is composed of two parts or frames, an upper and a lower frame. The upper frame 1 is Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 11, 1921.

Serial No. 294,169.

composed of a flat body piece, generally rectangulanni form, as shown, having the two depending arms 3, one disposed at each rear corner thereof, each arm provided with a series of perforations 4. These perforatlons may go entirely through the arm or they may be formed as recesses. To the fiat body part, I also provide depending binding posts 1O, wh1ch may be solid or hollow.

The part 2 is composed of a flat body part similar to the part1 and has extendin upward therefrom, hinged at 6, a plate 5. his plate has at each upper corner a pin 7, which coincides with and fits into one of the holes 4 during the binding operation. Extending upwardly from the body plate of the part 2, I provide hollow binding posts 12.

The posts 10 telescope in and out of the hollow posts 12.

The leaves, pages or documents which have been bound by my device, shown in F1 1, are marked 17. (fine manner of using my binding device is as follows: The leaves or pages 17 which were originally upon some form of temporary binding means which have either been held for a definite time or under certain circumstances, and which may be of varying degrees of density or thickness, are taken off of said temporary binding means and placed between the parts land 2, the body plates or parts of which pass on either side of said leaves or pages to be bound; the holes in said leaves are passed over the binding posts 12 and the binding posts 10 are then forced down into said posts 12 until the pages 17 are tightly clasped, the hinged plate 5 is then thrown up until its pins 7 register with the holes 4 which are opposite to them or coincide therewith; this is done while the pressure is still exerted to bind the leaves tightly, and when this pressure is released the pins 7 are tightly held in the holes 4 by the expansive pressure of the tightly bound leaves 17. If it is desired to reach any of the leaves 17 or remove any or all of them, pressure is exerted between the parts 1 and 2 until the pins 7 readily leave the holes 4 by the operator pulling down the hinged plate 5.

One of the salient features of my invention consists in tightly pressing or exerting pressure between two clamping parts and then locking the same so that the outward pressure exerted by the leaves which are clamped between the parts in bulk, will hold the locking means in fixed position and in alinement and against displacement by ordinary commercial use. In this manner, a system of binding files for reference can be established, which is unique, very simple and very desirable and convenient.

I do not wish to limit myself to the exact and precise construction and formation of parts herein shown, as the device can be changed and modified, and I wish to be understood as claiming such modifications as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim as new and my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a binding device of the character described, an upper and lower binding plate, said plates provided with downwardly and upwardly extending parts respectively said part on one of the plates being hinged, and with downwardly and upwardly extending binding posts, said plates capable of being pressed toward each other to tightly bind leaves or pages between them, and means for uniting the upwardly and downwardly extending parts first above referred to, to

' hold all the parts in the position into which they have been pressed.

2. In a binding device of the character described, an upper and a lower binding plate, said upper plate provided with depending binding posts and depending arms containing a series of holes, said lower plate having an upwardly extending part having pins at each upper corner thereof and also provided with hollow binding posts for re ceiving the binding posts of the upper plate,

said plates capable of tightly holding leaves or pages between them, said bound leaves held in such position against displacement by reason of the pins coinciding with a set of the registering holes.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature at Cincinnati, Ohio, this 28th day of April, 1919.

CHARLES H. PAYNE 

